I didn't see any advertisements for this show so it kind of snuck up on me. I don't even recall how I heard about it. It's on Thursday nights on ABC. It's kind of like The Americans, but from our point of view regarding the Cold War. I acquired the first episode via torrents and set up a series recording on my HTPC. If you like espionage thrillers this may be in your wheelhouse.

I saw plenty of ads, but didn't bother because even from there, it looked like a pale imitation of The Americans. You could see the bad writing & acting in the 2 minutes of preview.

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Unlike the Americans, The Assets is fact based and adapted from the book written by Sandra Grimes (the agent portrayed in the series). I really didn't think the writing or acting was that bad, but it certainly isn't all that gripping. And clearly ABC doesn't have high hopes for it given their lack of support. Still, I find it interesting and plan on watching the rest of the episodes.

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I thought it was quite good, with the exception of the extremely terrible music (ambiance music - not songs). It feels like a bit less fantastical than the Americans. And, so far, not quite as good but still quite worth watching at this point.

I thought it was decent. Not great, but watchable, and a terrific (true) story that it's based on.

It's a fixed length mini-series, in the true use of the phrase (not like Under The Dumb, which magically changed from a mini-series to a series). And that's good news, because the ratings were so bad, it wouldn't survive a second week were it not for a fixed shelf life anyway.

It seemed to be not very well done, but I like this kind of show so I'll keep watching for now.

Spoiler:

The part with Yurchenko and Ames was horrible but the part with Polyakov was much better. I've always thought of Ames as a steely cold blooded spy since he was able to fool the CIA for so long, who'd have thought he was really a sniveling weasel?

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I was at home (vacation) the day it premiered, with our local ABC affiliate on the TV most of the morning. Two or three of the morning talk shows interviewed the author/agent that wrote the book and my local news talked about it too. By late morning I decided to set up a recording for it.

I haven't watched it yet -- since it's a mini-series and I have a backlog of shows that I've been neglecting, I figure I can let this one build up for a few weeks before I start it. I've never seen The Americans so I expect I will enjoy it more than the rest of you seem to be.

It's a fixed length mini-series, in the true use of the phrase (not like Under The Dumb, which magically changed from a mini-series to a series). And that's good news, because the ratings were so bad, it wouldn't survive a second week were it not for a fixed shelf life anyway.

{Banging my head against the wall} I really need to stop making predictions where the networks are involved.

It's not like we didn't know it, but geez, screw the customer, let's go after a few marginally higher ratings points. They're going to show a Shark Tank repeat instead of this? They couldn't just let this run out its course?

I'm with sieglinde. I would watch this as a miniseries now, but have no desire to wait months to see it finally aired.

I didn't see any advertisements for this show so it kind of snuck up on me. I don't even recall how I heard about it. It's on Thursday nights on ABC. It's kind of like The Americans, but from our point of view regarding the Cold War. I acquired the first episode via torrents and set up a series recording on my HTPC. If you like espionage thrillers this may be in your wheelhouse.

Wow, I missed this. I had no idea about it. Definitely in my wheelhouse. So I might have to seek it out.

I saw it after that post...but, there's only one episode and since it's supposed to be self contained, I'll take my chances it shows up this summer. If not, it could be 45 minutes or so of something I enjoyed, or not. I've spent longer than that on series that were supposed to be good and weren't.

I saw it after that post...but, there's only one episode and since it's supposed to be self contained,...

Definitely NOT self-contained. It's the first episode of an eight eps mini-series.

One can certainly save/watch these first two, and hope they air the rest at some point. But to watch them by themselves is a waste of time. They were ok, not great, but decent. And the only reason I stuck with it (after the 1st ep) is the story itself is interesting, and I wanted to see how it played out. Otherwise, it was a B grade show and I wouldn't have kept watching.

Definitely NOT self-contained. It's the first episode of an eight eps mini-series.

One can certainly save/watch these first two, and hope they air the rest at some point. But to watch them by themselves is a waste of time. They were ok, not great, but decent. And the only reason I stuck with it (after the 1st ep) is the story itself is interesting, and I wanted to see how it played out. Otherwise, it was a B grade show and I wouldn't have kept watching.